SPACE COWBOYS

ANDRE NEMEC ADOPTED a simple mission statement when it came to adapting the acclaimed Japanese anime Cowboy Bebop into a live-action space Western. The showrunner thought, “Let’s not fuck it up.” Nemec conveyed those words of wisdom to the TV series’ writers, production designers, costumers, transportation department, editors and everyone else hired for the project.

“I’ve done some adaptations before and I really wanted to live in the spirit of the anime, while breathing new storytelling into it,” Nemec (, ) tells . “The mantra for me was to honour the spirit of the anime, and that meant a lot of different things. I began a very deep dive of looking at the storytelling of the anime, the inspirations of the anime and what really motivated